02 March 2015

"Naples is a whole world, and if you try to photograph a whole world, you will be doomed to failure. With just one camera from another time and a film about to disappear, I took it upon myself to photograph a slice of that world while exploring it like a traveler. A city that was not buried but slips through your fingers. A city that disappears in every corner to rise again like the one thousand colors mystery called Napule. Juan Santos"website / order

01 March 2015

“It doesn’t matter where I am because I always feel strange. A kind of uncomfortable. I went out into the country and looked at it thoroughly. Photographing intuitively what attracted my attention or reflected my emotions at a certain time. Sometimes I was drawn to a specific place or I just came across it by chance. The days past by and I found a muteness in it.”

"Shoot! is a documentary project following a small pheasant and partridge shooting syndicate in County Durham, North East UK. The book was created to accompany the exhibition, 'Shoot!' installed at Durham Art Gallery as part of 'The Social:Encountering Photography', and incorporates 29 photographs and 12 game recipes."

"Madrid, the city where we all are foreigners, adopted, hosted or in passing; but it is also the city you will do it your way. Madrid drown with its rhythm of life, running through the corridor of any metro; but it is also that city whose blotchy sunset can make you believe that everything is possible. Madrid is pure eroticism. A drug from which you can not unhook."

"A Thousand Ancestors is the culmination of a long-standing collaboration between photographer Michelle Arcila and musician/bassist Eivind Opsvik which synthesize the strong influence of visual imagery on music, and vice versa. The project is a limited edition box set (numbered edition of 500) designed by Espen Friberg containing a ten-track vinyl LP (plus a CD and download card), ten photographic prints, each of which correspond to a track on the record, and a poster."

"Repetitions is a publication about the urban environment. Through the years I photographed architectural structures and buildings that have a common visual consistency. I also revisited construction sites to capture their development. Both interests in the urban space I combined in this magazine style publication."

"Good Days Gone Cold Days was made by Sarah LaPonte and Helen Jones in the late fall in Pennsylvania while living in and working on a house without heat, without doorknobs, and without much insulation or electricity to speak of."

14 February 2015

"Mashhad is the biggest religious city in Iran and is mostly known as the Holy City of Mashhad. In the series Hometown, the photographer wants to expand his view of the city as a person who tries to understand the structure of the city and its culture. As a result, the holy part of the city disappears and is replaced with a more abstract idea and form."

13 February 2015

"For his Milky Way project, Robert Rutöd went where the ‚sun dies‘ and, according to medieval thinking, the end of the world was located. The resulting photographs are like stills from a bizarre, poetic road movie. Milky Way box set containing: Book, brochure/poster, relic from a late medieval torture device."

12 February 2015

"A beautiful and atmospheric collection of medium format and 35mm color film images from photographer and avid hiker Nicole Mark. All taken from the enchanting landscapes of the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon and Washington."

AF is a photographic investigation about one tiny unnamed village in southeast Spain. The geographical reality of the place is matched with the particular headspace of the photographers at that time, depicting something halfway between a space of uncertainty and a dream of freedom. AF is the first book by Spanish photo collective Omnivore Photo."

"An industrial skyline looms over Taranto through every possible visual and mental sight. For over 50 years, smoke, dust and pollutants propagated in a town forced to an alleged “industrial vocation”, but actually with deeper, more and more invisible vocations for farming, tourism and the sea. Water and oil, countryside and steel, doric columns and concrete do not coexist in this southern Italian town, as well as the absurd, unacceptable by now, alternative between work and health. Sansavenir is a word painted on a wall dividing the Ilva steel factory and the town surrounding it.These photographs talk about what is surrounding it. "

06 February 2015

"In the fall of 2014 the world witnessed with confusion, how, headed by the ambitious adventurer Putin, fraternal Russia invaded the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. This project reinterprets the problems involved in political territory and movement through Soviet worn-out prints from the 80‘s Sevastopol State Traffic Inspectorate."

"'Sintesi dei metodi tradizionali di conoscenza dell’universo’ is an art edition, an extension of the previous book 'Antologia Minima', a discussion of the ethical responsibilities in the data organization to create an archive. The book is a tribute to the texts of parascientific information on the mysteries of the universe published in the 70s and 80s. An accurate selection of non-authorial photographs (taken from manuals to train dogs, fitness and bodybuilding, christian propaganda novels and essays on medical hypnosis) accompanied by some autographs texts, that segment of knowledge split between science, faith and popular credulity."

"…I love NY, Twin Towers, The Chequered Taxi, Hands Across America, to God Bless the Cheerful giver…These pictures form a closed loop of photographs taken in New York, Manhattan, 1986. Visions from a taxi window, visions of have and have not's, takers and givers.

"The frame, newly reconstructed, had not yet recovered the play that would let it absorb earthquakes, and the weakest tremors rattle the roof with a series of dull rumbles. 'You will see' (…), the gardener said to me, 'the night it wakes you, it is like a tiger bounding along the roof.' " — nicolas bouvier: the japanese chronicles (1955-1970)

"A gloomy and sharp glance at the French Capital. The city are shrouded in an irrational atmosphere, where sometimes the irony, the grotesque, the delicate and the bizarre are tangled up. The disturbing visual route shows us the perturbing side of some of the most popular corners in Paris. Thus, unexpected situations are revealed, changing the everyday into something unique and inviting to guess what will happen or what has already happened."

"It is not so much a document of particular events or a nostalgic inquiring into the past, while trying to get rid of contradictory feelings. It’s a meditation on the foggy perceptions that are leaving traces on the path of our life. These images are intentionally difficult to categorize. The indistinct scenes that appear before us are coming from a trail of memories, and family’s tales, intertwined with the photographer’s own wondering. It is an exploration into the dreams and fears. The book connects place and memory, disconnected from the passage of time. It isn’t about the past or the future, or about the present, but still it is a closely woven tale of history and identity."

"Blocks is a collection of my topographic works focusing on the absurd and surreal living environment of the public housing in Hong Kong. Wandering in the public space of the various public housing estates through the years, I instilled my own experiences and memories in public housing into the many images of concrete that appeared deadpan and cold, similar to the introduction of civilization and its discontents by Sigmund Freud. The “Eternal City” in Ancient Rome, where buildings from different historical periods co-existed and overlapped in disharmony, was used as a metaphor of the mental lives of human beings."

20 January 2015

"In the Fall of 2014 the world witnessed with confusion, how, headed by the ambitious adventurer Putin, fraternal Russia invaded the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. This project reinterprets the problems involved in political territory and movement through Soviet worn-out prints from the 80‘s Sevastopol State Traffic Inspectorate."

"Fixed is the work of Phillips' alter-ego Madge Cameron, a reclusive librarian born in 1935. Digitizing the archive where she works, Cameron discovered that by moving a snapshot while it was being recorded, she could separate the image into its color channels, resulting in a strange 3D effect. The book includes ten full-bleed color plates of Cameron's re-interpolated snapshots, as well as 3D glasses for viewing."

I närhetenby John HåkanssonEpilogue by John Håkansson in Swedish, and translated in English and Japanese Graphic Design: Dennis HanqvistPublisher: Trema FörlagSize: 220x260 mm / 8,7x10 inch, 108 pages and 55 images.Type of printing: OffsetEdition size: First edition of 500ISBN: 978-91-982014-1-3Price 35 €

"The Photographs are landscapes shot within the close proximity of where I have lived the past ten years. My address has moved around to different residencies in the other southern boroughs of Stockholm, Sweden. I have also lived a period in Japan, Tokyo’s Mukojima district. The pictures are shot as a response to the striking dominance of Nature and the lack of commerce."

05 January 2015

"The aether is total, but impalpable; it is invisible, but eternal; and finally it carries the light. Ancient philosophers believed that the aether is the fifth element, absolute and divine. Chemical transformations take place due to it and also the sky is such as it is. Because of its nature aether all the time eludes from a observer, it is difficult to identify or measure it. A lot of people in the Middle Ages who have studied natural philosophy trying to liberate aether or quintessence. They left only intricate texts and questionable evidences, so we don't know exactly what they had. But just one thing - aether is everywhere, in every grain of matter, in every photograph."

"My intention was to create an old-fashioned style paper containing tasteful and respectable nude photography which focuses on the shape and form of the body while remaining contemporary in context and style. Using the mediums of photography and newspaper style print technique my aim was to retrieve a certain warmth, romance, atmosphere and tradition that is lacking more and more in a digitalised world which is dominated by screens and displays."

"A selection of pictures from the one-pic-per-day blog I've been running for a year. Snapshots of my everyday life, a serie of unusual details, street photography, tours and travels, the squat and DIY scene."

"The finality of death - looking at ageing and fragility from a different angle. Shadows cast on memorial stones in a local graveyard balanced with images of a former home for the elderly - captured after it’s closure and a significant fire. Itself teetering on permanent demise. Shared as pairs the images reflect on the contrast between the living world of the photographer and the end of life represented by the two environments captured."

29 December 2014

"Whilst there is a photography tradition of documenting the American road trip, I felt that traveling by bike would expose me to opportunities and encounters that could be overlooked if travelled by car or bus. Taking a slower pace and being on my own speed allowed me, as an observer passing through small American towns, to see the beauty in the banality of everyday life. I feel the decision to cycle not only gave me a stronger connection the landscape but also to the people I met along the way."

28 December 2014

"The project "Street Theography" was created during 2006-2014 in different cities of Ukraine, Poland and Russia. No wonder of people praying in church, but the meter of my interest were manifestations of religious feelings in everyday life, on every street. Hence the name and the idea emerged during photographic research ─ especially in the street the conflict between the intimate nature of faith and the public, often ostentatious religiosity strongly appears."

"I went to Paris last June. I saw a Family walking around the Louvre, I thought they all looked like detectives. I remembered the famous detective and named them La Famille Poirot. They seemed to be investigating a case so I started persecuting them. I collected my own clues and the ones that they seemed to be collecting. It was another outstanding case, but I discovered a very special Paris guided by the Poirot Family, a city full of small secrets."website / order

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"Kingdom is an imaginative world with its own set of rules where the power of the subconscious resurfaces through enigmatic images and unexpected relationships towards a dreamy and hypnotic vision of reality. Kingdom is composed of four different volumes containing photographs made over a ten-year period (2004 -2014) in different cities and locations around the world. Shot entirely in black and white, each book is printed on four different shades of pastel coloured paper. Kingdom IV is the fourth and final book of the series."

"Magic Campo is about the Palio of Siena. It is a dreamy tale without winners or losers. Magic Campo is a dream in black and white. Stefano’s images are suspended in time, enigmatic, alienating, which do not arouse immediate recognition but on the contrary they are a force that raises the viewer awareness.”

"Secrets – such was the name of a very popular children’s game in the USSR. Mostly 5-8 year old girls were involved in this game. It was not just a game, but rather a mystic ritual. Natalya has portrayed women, who have moved to Germany from Russia or former Soviet republics. The artist repeats with these now grown-up girls the game of “Secrets” [Sekretiki,] meaning Treasures, and finds common reminiscences."

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